Cumberland County Director of Elections and Voter Registration Penny Brown said the last of the remaining votes were counted Wednesday.

Military members serving overseas had until Tuesday for their ballots to arrive at the Elections Office. Those votes were counted, but Brown said they did not change the results of any race.

There were only five.

But Brown pointed out that’s about average when it comes to a municipal primary election year when most counties tend to see a lower overall voter turnout than years when there is a national election.

And now that the final votes are in, the next step is for the Cumberland County Board of Elections to meet Tuesday when they are expected to certify the results of the primary, making them official.

And part of that certification is adding the write-in candidates to November’s ballot.

Brown explained if any race in the primary has a vacancy, and a write-in candidate garnered enough votes to qualify to be added to the ballot, they will be added after the results are certified Tuesday.

Also, if there was a vacancy in the Democratic party, for instance, but a winner was determined in a Republican race, and that Republican winner got enough write-in votes from Democrats, the candidate will be listed in November as a Republican/Democrat.

The primary election in Cumberland County saw only a 14 percent voter turnout, which Brown said is a bit below average. In 2009, the last time the offices in this cycle were up for election, voter turnout was around 19 percent.

Coming up next:

Third-party candidates have until Sept. 16 to file their paperwork to appear on the ballot in the fall.

And the deadline to register to vote in the November election is Oct. 7.

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